Career: Ayoade's breakthrough came when he and Matthew Holness created fictional horror author Garth Merenghi; a stage show featuring the character won the Perrier Award, which was followed by the Channel 4 series Garth Merenghi's Darkplace. Ayoade went on to appear in The Mighty Boosh, Nathan Barley, Bunny and the Bull, and The IT Crowd. He made his big-screen directorial debut with the acclaimed Submarine (which he also wrote, adapting it from the novel by Joe Dunthorne), and has since directed The Double as well as numerous music videos for acts such as the Arctic Monkeys, Super Furry Animals, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Kasabian. He's was a team captain on Channel 4 panel show Was It Something I Said? and took over as host of Gadget Man from Stephen Fry.

Career: Pascoe first appeared in her own show at the Edinburgh Festival in 2010. Since then, she has toured around the UK and appeared on a number of TV panel shows, including Mock the Week, Never Mind the Buzzcocks and QI. She has also acted in The Thick of It, The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, Campus, Twenty Twelve and W1A. In 2016, she published Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body.

Career: Murray's big break came when he was asked to compere Harry Hill's Pub Internationale act at the Edinburgh Festival in 1994. It was there he created his bigoted, sexist and aggressive Pub Landlord character. He's since toured in that guise several times, most notably in 2001, when his stint in London earned him an Olivier Award. Murray has also appeared on TV with Hill, starred in Time Gentleman Please, featured in 2004's Hell's Kitchen, hosted the Discovery Channel's Al Murray's Road to Berlin and had an acclaimed An Audience With... programme in 2005. Other TV projects include Al Murray's Multiple Personality Disorder and Compete for the Meat quiz on the channel Dave.